jueves, 24 de abril de 2014

The Rand Daily Mail

The Rand Daily Mail was a Johannesburg daily newspaper with an anti-apartheid editorial stance, which is best known for breaking the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979. It also exposed the truth about the death in custody of anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, in 1977.
History
Soon after it was founded in 1902 by Harry Cohen, The Rand Daily Mail was bought by mining magnate Abe Bailey.
During the apartheid years, journalists like Benjamin Pogrund reported on political and economic issues affecting black South Africans about which whites were largely ignorant. Pogrund, for example, reported on the Sharpeville massacre of 1960.
In 1963 journalists at the paper wrote about prison conditions, and were the first to report on forced removals.[1]
On 3 November 1978 Rand Daily Mail journalists Mervyn Rees and Chris Day reported on the use of public funds since 1973 to set up a disinformation...

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